~In honour of the Simpsons, Mummy and Daddy teach Aimee a very important gesture.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Aimee takes a stroll
Aimee takes a stroll. I'm trying out video links, let's see if this works. This was taken with my dad's cheapy digicam on Sunday November 26
Brilliant! It works
More to come then.
Brilliant! It works
More to come then.
Mission Impossible
After the highlight of Aimee reaching one years old, this old man has been brought crashing down to the reality of child rearing. Cat decided finally, she would get a much needed rest and went away to her parents for a couple of days. This meant me looking after the baby entirely alone for the first time. WAAAAAAAH!
A 6am start on DAY 1 meant I had a headache by 8am. The day was not beginning well not helped by terrible weather outside killing off any ideas I had about easy pram rides. But after a while, Aimee and me got on with the important business of the day – namely – hunting down imaginary objects in the house and destroying all things in her path. Currently, Aimee seems obsessed with certain jewellery, Calpol bottles, hair clips and CD covers – Toy makers take note, these are the real things babies love. She crawls at such a pace that a small lapse of concentration on my behalf and she is already out of the room. Day 1 ended with a fairly standard routine but by then, I was ready to conk out myself and next thing I knew, it was 6am and same again.
On Day 2 – I couldn’t cope and drove down early to my parents for help. There she went about the same madcap hunt for objects of interest and destroying all in her path. This time though, she showed off her unaided standing skills with aplomb. We really don’t think it will be long before she actually can walk. Meanwhile, her musical stroller helps her get about the place with added comedy soundtrack. Anyway, so there's me after 48 exhausting hours fairly smug to have survived and confident that not many Dads could cope like I coped (ha!) and Aunt Catriona rings and after explaining my weekend, she off the cuff remarks that Oh yes, Donald (her son, Cat's cousin) had looked after Callum every Monday all the time! Oh jeez, humbled in one fell swoop.
Come back Mum , all is forgiven.
A 6am start on DAY 1 meant I had a headache by 8am. The day was not beginning well not helped by terrible weather outside killing off any ideas I had about easy pram rides. But after a while, Aimee and me got on with the important business of the day – namely – hunting down imaginary objects in the house and destroying all things in her path. Currently, Aimee seems obsessed with certain jewellery, Calpol bottles, hair clips and CD covers – Toy makers take note, these are the real things babies love. She crawls at such a pace that a small lapse of concentration on my behalf and she is already out of the room. Day 1 ended with a fairly standard routine but by then, I was ready to conk out myself and next thing I knew, it was 6am and same again.
On Day 2 – I couldn’t cope and drove down early to my parents for help. There she went about the same madcap hunt for objects of interest and destroying all in her path. This time though, she showed off her unaided standing skills with aplomb. We really don’t think it will be long before she actually can walk. Meanwhile, her musical stroller helps her get about the place with added comedy soundtrack. Anyway, so there's me after 48 exhausting hours fairly smug to have survived and confident that not many Dads could cope like I coped (ha!) and Aunt Catriona rings and after explaining my weekend, she off the cuff remarks that Oh yes, Donald (her son, Cat's cousin) had looked after Callum every Monday all the time! Oh jeez, humbled in one fell swoop.
Come back Mum , all is forgiven.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Birthday Girl
After a hellish night where Aimee screamed her lungs off and we were both reduced to sleepless tears, Aimee's first birthday went off without too much fuss.
Clearly, she was in some distress about some new teeth that have decided now to make their presence known. But she was too distracted by the noises, smell and lots of friendly faces at the Shanghai Restaurant where we all ate lovely Dim Sum. Cat invited her friend Jennifer, her husband and their little 13 month boy Luke. My Mum and Dad also came.
As always, Aimee loved all the attention, although she obviously has no idea why all the fuss today. Little Luke is very funny. He is actually very developed and is able to communicate with his parents using words like MAW (= more), NANNA (= banana), MUMMY, DADDY, HAWO etc. All this from a boy only one month older than Aimee. We gets lots of sounds and vocal noises from Aimee but they don;t seem to be directed with any meaning. But we're not worried.
In any case, why worry when your baby is an international star, as the screen shot from the BBC website shows:
Yes the Robert Winston program is now out and all the press release pictures have included several Aimee photos. So far only the BBC and the Guardian have chosen Aimee's picture.
Funny Aimee antic of the day - she finds it REALLY hilarious when we slap our foreheadds (don;t ask how we found out). But she laughs her head off, then, she copies us. I mean we try and try to teach her important things like how to use a spoon etc but she ignores our actions, then, we slap our heads and she copies us like a little mime artist and pisses herself laughing. Amazing!
If I can get the video thingy to work, I maybe able to post visual evidence of her head slapping skillz.
Clearly, she was in some distress about some new teeth that have decided now to make their presence known. But she was too distracted by the noises, smell and lots of friendly faces at the Shanghai Restaurant where we all ate lovely Dim Sum. Cat invited her friend Jennifer, her husband and their little 13 month boy Luke. My Mum and Dad also came.
As always, Aimee loved all the attention, although she obviously has no idea why all the fuss today. Little Luke is very funny. He is actually very developed and is able to communicate with his parents using words like MAW (= more), NANNA (= banana), MUMMY, DADDY, HAWO etc. All this from a boy only one month older than Aimee. We gets lots of sounds and vocal noises from Aimee but they don;t seem to be directed with any meaning. But we're not worried.
In any case, why worry when your baby is an international star, as the screen shot from the BBC website shows:
Yes the Robert Winston program is now out and all the press release pictures have included several Aimee photos. So far only the BBC and the Guardian have chosen Aimee's picture.
Funny Aimee antic of the day - she finds it REALLY hilarious when we slap our foreheadds (don;t ask how we found out). But she laughs her head off, then, she copies us. I mean we try and try to teach her important things like how to use a spoon etc but she ignores our actions, then, we slap our heads and she copies us like a little mime artist and pisses herself laughing. Amazing!
If I can get the video thingy to work, I maybe able to post visual evidence of her head slapping skillz.
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